Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655263

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/655263

ND34SW 9 32431 41497.

(ND 3243 4150) Broch (NR) (rems of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

A much-quarried mound which probably contains the ruins of a broch. The mound is about 66ft in diameter and 4 to 5ft high, with a circular depression, about 21ft in diameter, in the centre, probably indicating the interior court.

RCAHMS 1911.

The grass-covered remains of a broch, as described by the RCAHMS, situated on a low ridge.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

The severely robbed, grass-, nettle- and rush-grown remains of this broch are situated on a crag immediately SE of an un-named farmsteading and only 10m W of the A99(T) public road. The broch measures about 8.5m in diameter within a wall that has been reduced to a mound of rubble up to 9m in thickness and 1m in height. There is no clear trace of an entrance, but it may have been on the N, where a section of the wall has been removed.

(YARROWS04 265)

Visited by RCAHMS (ATW) 25 August 2004